We wrote to our students this morning, as they collected their GCSE results:
“When you receive your results today, remember, we are enormously proud of you. Our respect and admiration for the way you have overcome the genuinely extraordinary and at times gruelling challenges of your Y10 and Y11 cannot be overstated. You have been tested — in more ways than one — and have shown the character and resilience to complete your studies despite having to endure the disruption and uncertainty caused by this sickening pandemic. From the national lockdowns and school closures, the move to remote learning, the loss of much of our extra-curricular activities, the sudden requirements to self-isolate, having to adapt to the stringent safety measures in school… you have responded with commitment, maturity, patience, and compassion for others. And all this while you navigated your way through the emotional demands and pressures that the pandemic has invariably placed on us all.
We sincerely hope that you know your teachers recognise all that you have faced and, indeed, achieved. They have worked tirelessly and have been utterly, unswervingly committed to your success in these most extraordinary of times. They have been driven by their ambition for you, by their determination to ensure that you could benefit from the best opportunities to learn, to show what you have learned and, moreover, to ensure that you were offered fair outcomes for your progression. As a staff, we have been privileged to witness your development into the remarkable young people you are. So, we will say it unashamedly again, we are proud of you.”
Whilst there have been some exceptional individual successes, we are incredibly proud of and excited for all our students. 15 students achieved the highest grades, 9-7 or equivalent in all their subjects, with 8 students achieving grade 9 in over half of their subjects. Over 20% of all grades awarded were grades 7 or above, and over 50% of all grades awarded were grades 5 and above. More than 3 in every 5 students achieved grades 9-5 in at least 5 subjects, and half of our students achieved grades 9-5 in at least 5 subjects including English and mathematics. Over 4 in every 5 students achieved grades 4 and above in at least 5 subjects. Many results also illustrate the truly remarkable progress several of our students have made over their time with us.
The process we followed to arrive at their Teacher Assessed Grades this year was thorough and rigorous, and teachers worked incredibly hard — in extraordinarily challenging circumstances, with the support of our Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust family, against a backdrop of uncertainty and other coronavirus related pressures — to ensure that the grades students have achieved were based on our ‘fair, reasonable and carefully considered judgement of their performance across a range of evidence, on the curriculum content that they have been taught’.
“When you receive your results today, remember, we are enormously proud of you. Our respect and admiration for the way you have overcome the genuinely extraordinary and at times gruelling challenges of your Y10 and Y11 cannot be overstated. You have been tested — in more ways than one — and have shown the character and resilience to complete your studies despite having to endure the disruption and uncertainty caused by this sickening pandemic. From the national lockdowns and school closures, the move to remote learning, the loss of much of our extra-curricular activities, the sudden requirements to self-isolate, having to adapt to the stringent safety measures in school… you have responded with commitment, maturity, patience, and compassion for others. And all this while you navigated your way through the emotional demands and pressures that the pandemic has invariably placed on us all.
We sincerely hope that you know your teachers recognise all that you have faced and, indeed, achieved. They have worked tirelessly and have been utterly, unswervingly committed to your success in these most extraordinary of times. They have been driven by their ambition for you, by their determination to ensure that you could benefit from the best opportunities to learn, to show what you have learned and, moreover, to ensure that you were offered fair outcomes for your progression. As a staff, we have been privileged to witness your development into the remarkable young people you are. So, we will say it unashamedly again, we are proud of you.”
Whilst there have been some exceptional individual successes, we are incredibly proud of and excited for all our students. 15 students achieved the highest grades, 9-7 or equivalent in all their subjects, with 8 students achieving grade 9 in over half of their subjects. Over 20% of all grades awarded were grades 7 or above, and over 50% of all grades awarded were grades 5 and above. More than 3 in every 5 students achieved grades 9-5 in at least 5 subjects, and half of our students achieved grades 9-5 in at least 5 subjects including English and mathematics. Over 4 in every 5 students achieved grades 4 and above in at least 5 subjects. Many results also illustrate the truly remarkable progress several of our students have made over their time with us.
The process we followed to arrive at their Teacher Assessed Grades this year was thorough and rigorous, and teachers worked incredibly hard — in extraordinarily challenging circumstances, with the support of our Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust family, against a backdrop of uncertainty and other coronavirus related pressures — to ensure that the grades students have achieved were based on our ‘fair, reasonable and carefully considered judgement of their performance across a range of evidence, on the curriculum content that they have been taught’.
